Chapter 115 A true message

Author: Fat Bird Goes First

Chapter 115 A true message

When Hai Rui arrived, Lin Qingcai and Chen Chaoyuan immediately put away their plays and listened intently to Hai Rui's lecture.

Looking at the four people, Hai Rui cleared his throat and said:

"You have studied hard these days and have a good grasp of the meaning of the Four Books."

"Memorizing sutras and annotations is just the first step in taking the imperial examination. From today on, I will assign an imperial examination exercise in every class and ask you to go back and answer it. Next time you will submit it to class and I will mark it for you on the spot."

Except for Su Ze, the other three people looked at Hai Rui excitedly.

It is also crucial to have a good teacher know about the imperial examination.

Some Jinshi families are able to continuously produce Jinshi. In addition to family genes and family tradition, it also has a lot to do with the famous teachers hired by the family.

Writing eight-part essays can be done by ordinary readers as long as they have read books for a few years and seen some eight-part essays.

But writing it out is one thing, and whether it is written well or not is another matter entirely.

This is where the importance of correction comes into play.

Naturally, no problems can be found in the eight-legged essay written by oneself. If a famous teacher corrects and points out the problems, it can be improved next time. This is the importance of "practice".

But how can ordinary children from poor families have the money to hire famous teachers to help with corrections, so the three of them have been taking part in the imperial examinations, but they don't know the reason why they failed in the imperial examinations.

Having Hai Rui correct their homework and help them understand where they did not write well was the guidance the three of them needed most.

A true message can pull you back to the right path when you take a detour.

Next, Hai Rui began to give lectures. This time Hai Rui also increased the difficulty of the lecture content. It was no longer limited to the meaning of a certain sutra, but expanded based on the content of the entire Four Books and Five Classics.

The sentences in the scriptures are not independent, and some contents need to be "connected with the context" to understand them.

Sure enough, after raising the difficulty level, Xiong Yue, whose basic skills were not very solid, began to have trouble understanding.

Chen Chaoyuan and Lin Qingcai also barely followed Hai Rui's lectures.

Among the four, only Su Ze has completely followed Hai Rui's courses.

Su Ze's imperial examination skills have been upgraded to Level 5. After listening to Hai Rui's lectures at this level, Su Ze gained new insights.

Su Ze's understanding of some issues that were originally unnoticed and some understanding of the meaning of the scriptures became more profound.

Is this what an upgrade feels like?

After reaching Level 5, Su Ze was able to fully hear Hai Rui's lectures, and could draw inferences from his lectures to understand more by analogy.

Moreover, after his intelligence attributes were improved, Su Ze had a deeper understanding of those parts of the scriptures that needed to be analyzed, and his learning speed was naturally faster.

[Classroom listening, imperial examination skills experience +22, Lv5, 23/1000]

Gained 22 experience points in one hour!

Su Ze looked at the Encyclopedia of Four Books and Five Classics in front of him. Hai Rui's teaching speed this time was much faster than before. He almost covered the content of the previous two classes. It is no wonder that his experience has more than doubled.

The remaining 2 points of experience should be the bonus provided by the intelligence attribute.

As he explored, Su Ze discovered a way to increase experience in the imperial examination, which was to increase the course content and intellectual attributes.

Thinking about it this way, it will be faster than expected to improve your imperial examination skills to Level 10!

In the next class, Hai Rui took out an essay from his imperial examination and began to explain his ideas for solving questions and answering questions, analyzing the essay from beginning to end.

Since Hai Rui was successful in the examination, his writings were naturally much better than those of the other four. After hearing Hai Rui's understanding of the eight-part essay, Su Ze also felt a sense of enlightenment. It turned out that this is how the eight-part essay was written!

[Classroom listening, imperial examination skills experience +22, Lv5, 45/1000]

Gained 44 experience points in one day!

It's a pity that he only came to the county to study for four days a month, otherwise Su Ze would have improved his imperial examination skills to Level 6 very soon.

After the course, Su Ze walked out of the county school and invited the two small-banner soldiers who escorted him to Changning Guard as agreed.

These Changning Guardsmen had never eaten at a restaurant in the county. After a stormy meal, Su Ze asked Lin Xianda about going to the county government to receive the reward today.

Lin Xianda said: "This time the Black Mountain thieves robbed the houses of many noble people in the county, and also massacred the houses of Sun Dianshi's family in the ceremonial room. The eldest master is very angry."

"When we presented Xue Gao's head, everyone in the county government was shocked!"

Lin Xianda burst out laughing. Changningwei had never shown such a face in Nanping County!

He still remembers the surprised look in Bai Zhixian's eyes and the surprised looks in the eyes of many officials.

I just got the news about the bandits' rampage, and in the blink of an eye, I was defeated by Changning Weiping?

Xue Gao was a bandit who had been with the rebels in Nanping County for many years. Many people in the county government knew him, and with the evidence of bandit members who were escorted here, Baizhi County quickly confirmed that the Black Bandits had really been wiped out!

Lin Xianda continued: "The county magistrate gave us the bounty on the spot, and then asked us to go back and inform hundreds of households, saying that we would be allowed to have one supplementary official of Changning Guard and two yamen servants."

The rewards this time are really generous!

Xue Gao's bounty was fifty taels of silver, and Baizhi County paid another ten taels of silver. Changning Guard's battle only wasted some gunpowder and lead bullets, which can be said to be a business without capital.

Sure enough, mercenaries are the most profitable!

One supplementary official and two yamen servants are the biggest rewards given by Baizhi County.

There is a limit on the number of officials in the county government. Although it is not as strict as Dian Shi, who needs to be registered with the Ministry of Officials, there are rules for how many people there are in each house, and the county government cannot recruit unlimited people.

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It is almost impossible for ordinary people to enter the county government as an official.

Most of the official positions are held by these aristocratic families and are only passed down within these families.

There are also cases like Lin Qingcai's cousin, or Chen Qingchao, a scholar with some background, who failed to pass the county examination and got into the county government through connections.

Thinking about how difficult it was for later generations to take the exam, you need to know that the number of county officials today is not as large as the number of people in a department in later generations. In most ancient systems, they are not even considered to be government officials. You can know how valuable the officials are.

Naturally, it is impossible for Su Ze to work as an official in the county government, but Changning Guard also has many innocent and smart people. The clan recommends one person to work as an official in the county government. In the future, Changning Guard will have people in the county government!

The same is true for the supplementary yamen. Not only did the Chen family in Beishan produce three yamen, they were known as the Chen family's three dogs. They were walking sideways near Changning Guard. Now Changning Guard can also let two of its sons come to Nanping County as errands. What will happen in the county in the future

Chang Ningwei will no longer be clueless.

Lin Xianda also showed an envious expression. He was a soldier in the military guard station, so it was naturally impossible for him to work as an official in the county government.

Although he, the small bannerman of the guard station, was in charge of ten regular soldiers, he was still incomparable with the officials.

At this time, there was a noise coming from downstairs.

"Is Mr. Changning Weisu upstairs?"

Lin Xianda immediately stood up and wanted to go down to investigate. He only heard the sound of thumping upstairs, and then three familiar people appeared upstairs.

The three dogs of the Chen family are the three brothers of the Chen family who work as county government officials.

The three of them looked excited and knelt down with a plop when they saw Su Ze.

"Sir, thank you very much for saving me from carrying the Chen family, regardless of past grievances!"

After saying that, the three of them kowtowed to Su Ze, and Su Ze had to ask Lin Xianda to pull the three of them up.

As soon as the news of the rebellion by the Black Mountain bandits came out, the three brothers were ready to return to their hometown to fight against the bandits. However, before they left the city, they heard the news that the Changning Guards had taken action and wiped out the Black Mountain bandits.

Then news came from Beishan's Chen family, saying that this time they relied on Su Ze to persuade Changning Weilin Baihu to take action and saved Beishan Village.

Although Chen's three dogs are flattering and bullying, they are not ungrateful.

Su Ze saved Beishan Village and was their benefactor. This kowtow was sincere.

It was the boss, Chen Bofei, who said: "Sir, if you have any errands, please use our brothers as soon as possible!"

Su Ze looked at the three of them and said, "The county magistrate has given us Changning Guards two places as guards. We Changning Guards have never served as guards. When the time comes, we will ask three more people to take care of us."

The three people were overjoyed and said: "Such a small thing, of course it should be done!"

After saying that, Chen Bofei rushed to pay the bill and sent Su Ze and his party off respectfully.

Magistrate Fang had just finished socializing, and had just taken off his official uniform. There was a knock on the door, and he saw his daughter pushing in with a bowl of herbal tea.

Seeing herbal tea, Fang Zhifu both loved and hated it.

What I love is that this thing is really effective. It not only cured his toothache, but also eliminated a lot of the acclimatization problems of Ren Fujian, the prefect.

What he hates is that this stuff is so unpleasant to drink. Every time his daughter has to watch him drink it, the prefect deeply suspects that his daughter makes him tea just to see his painful expression while drinking herbal tea.

But the prefect had no evidence.

Watching her father drink the herbal tea with a smile, Fang Ruolan stretched out her hand and said:

"Dad, have you finished reading the unique copy of Liu Tong's sentence from the Song Dynasty a few days ago?"

Magistrate Fang immediately said: "Lan'er, let my father read it for a few days first, and then I will give it to you after reading it!"

Fang Ruolan immediately said: "My daughter bought this book with herbal tea! If this happens, I won't be able to make herbal tea tomorrow!"

At this moment, Fang Zhifu immediately surrendered, raised his hands in surrender and said: "I will send it to your room tomorrow!"

Fang Ruolan looked like a victorious little fox and said in a rare and charming tone:
To be continued...